The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-19

The assignors of Richard II. Hanes and
the Bennington Wooden Mills Co. have
reached an agreement by which this prop
erty is freed from such litigation as pre-
vents its sale. The mills, the largest in Yer
mont, will be Immediately placed on the
market. With the mills running Benning-
tons population will be increased l 900 per-
sons, hence the importance of the agree
ment to its business interests.
WALLINGFoRD boasts of beds of ice that
outlast the heat Of July and August The
ice-beds are two miles from the village, at
the foot of one of the high mountains of
the Green Mountain range, On descending
into the ravine the temperature becomes
very cold. At the bottom is small brook,
whose waters are like ice-water Here ice
is found in large quantities in July and Au-
gust, when the place has many visitors
SIX colts belonging to s. l. Strond, Edison
Hurlbut Henley Newton and Merritt Bragg,
all of st. Adams, ran on to barbed-wre
fence in Georgia, where they were at pas
ture, which they broke down, and then
passed over on to MIR. Orcutt's road fence,
tearing out seven posts in their frantic
efforts. The colts were terribly lacerated
about their legs and bodies, the flesh being
cut clear to the bone in some cases Some
of them may die from their injuries.
CATTLE COMMISSIONERS BIssELL AND
DREW, DIR. Paige and Lyman Hubbard of
Orwell made another examination of the
neTuS Oh GAVIN 11uDDaru anu WllDur fOOJ.
They found some traces of pleuro-pneu-
monia, but in view of the strict surv eilance
under which they are kept, the animals not
being allowed to leave the barns in which
they are confined, the commissioners did
not think it best to order them killed yet
The farms are of course quarantined, and
will continue to be until the last vestige of
the disease is removed.
FURTHER developments in the crooked
ness of w. II. Buckley of Ludlow show
that by forgery or borrowing under false
representations he victmized the Baxter
National Bank of Rutland of $3.50 w. S.
Smith of Rutland 500, though Smith has
since secured most of it, after an amusing
race with an officer to get possession of a
horse; Artemus Spaulding of Ludlow, 500;
| Il. l.. Miller, 500 George s. Bridges, $50;
Mrs. Hasnett, $500; NJ. II Goddard $500; f.
A. Walker, S75; Theophilus Johnson, S125.
Buckley has been taken to Woodstock Jail
to await trial.
THE annual reunion of the Third Yer
mont Regiment was held at st. Johnsbury
! the 18th, over $50 veterans being present
! The day was spent in social chat and sight
seeing. A business meeting was presided
over by j. A. Paddock of st. Johnsbury
The officers elected were: President, Colonel
! Samuel Il. Pingree of Hartford vce-presi
dent, w. II. Hubbard of Lyndon secretary
and treasurer, Marshall Montgomery. In
the evening meeting was held in the
.Opera-house, presided over by Colonel Pin
gree. An address was made by Captain
| Marshall Montgomery of st. Johnsbury
which was followed by banquet The
next reunion is to be held at the same place
next October
In the meeting of the Board of Agriculture
in Grand Isle Mr.. Z. l.. Kinney of Soutl
Hero claimed, in his paper on the " Destruc
ton of Insect Pests in the Orchard" tina
the true way to trim high and thor
hi IN, nit &
mixture of Paris green and water, this spray
ing to be done just after the blossom falls
before the apple has dropped, and the sol
to be thoroughly plowed in spring and thel
cultivated often duringth the summer, but no
cropped. Pursuing this plan, Mr.. Kline!
never failed to give him crop since i
came into bearing Last year was con
Sdered very poor one on the island ant
this year not much better, and yet Mr.
Kinney took from his orchard 800 barrels o
tirst-class apples last year and will hav
the strongest kind of an argument in favo
of his method.
In General.
CIVIL war is feared in Morocco.
THE President spent Sunday in Nashville
JESSE L. HALL, Indian agent, is de
faulter in $4,000.
THIRTY-FoUR head of cattle were sold a
Lexington, Ky, for S17 ,245
REV. w. F. DAVIS has been fined $500 TO
preaching on Boston Common.
A NEW school-building in New York fel
Monday, killing five carpenters.
CAFE COP bay is full of mackerel and hur
dreds of schooners are after them.
A FIRE at Hankow, China, destroye
1000 lives. Property loss immense.
A New YORK Judge has overruled the wa
veteran precedent in the civil service.
MINISTER PHELPS and Mrs Phelps hav
visited at Wensinger Castle, Scotland.
DIPHTHERIA is raging, with fatal results
in the south part of Manchester n. IL.
EIGHTY cases of yellow fever and lively
deaths is the report from Tampa to date.
+ Mrs. LUCRETIA GARFIELD and daughte
Mollie sailed on the Arizona" for Live
, pool.
L. A. SENEGAL of Montreal, president {
the Richeleu & Ontario Navigation Co.,
dead.
REV. DIR. BURTON, pastor of Park Congr'
| gational church, Hartford, Conn, died las
week.
( The story of an attempt to wreck TIL
Presidents train in Tennessee was fabr
cation.
J THE death is announced in London
Mrs. Craik Dinah Maria Mulock), the al
thoress.
3 EDIsoN's photograph is to do away wit
4 type-writers and stenographic secretaries
l he says.
ADvICEs from the Cherokee Nation ind
: cate that bloodshed will attend the electio
/ of chief
, TwENTY-FoUR were killed and thirt
: wounded during an election riot in Plevn
Bulgaria.
p. T. BARNUM, the veteran Snowman,
: planning long trip through Central an
. South Africa.
: GENERAL BoULANGER has been arreste
) for his alleged share in the French Wi
office scandal.
THE members of the British arbitratiC
/. deputation to the United States have sailt
: from England.
: II. l.. ALDRIcH & Co.'S immense cote
o mill at Baltic, Conn, was burned last wee
e Loss S1,250,000.
+ THE circulation of the Paris papers Size
" and La Ldnterne has been prohibited
Alsace- Lorraine.
=. A LEAGUE to demand equal justice al
9 natural rights for the colored man has be,
II formed in Boston.
y THE Boston & Maine freight depot al
r contents We're burned at New Market, n, !
i Loss about $4,000
THE epidemic of scarlet fever in Lond,
# continues to spread. There are now o
e cases in the hospitals.
- THERE are one hundred cases of typho
t.,,., lt..l nVNh